Note 870 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Thorpe, ii. 249. “And we lærað ðæt preosta gehwilc cristendóm geornlíce árære, ⁊ ælcne hæðendóm mid ealle ádwǽsce, ⁊ forbeóde wilweorðunga ⁊ lícwiglunga ⁊ hwata ⁊ galdra ⁊ manweorðunga ⁊ ða gemearh ðe man drífð on mislícum gewiglungum, ⁊ on fríðsplottum, ⁊ on ellenum, ⁊ eác on óðrum mislícum treówum, ⁊ on stánum, ⁊ on manegum mislícum gedwimerum ðe mon ondreógað fela ðæs ðe hi ná ne scoldon.”
A various reading adds:—“treówwurðunga ⁊ stánwurðunga ⁊ ðone deófles cræft ðǽr man ða cild þurh ða eorðan tihð, ⁊ ða gemear ðe man drihð on geares niht:”—“tree-worshippings and stone-worshippings, and that devil’s craft, whereby children are drawn through the earth, and the vain practices which are carried on on the night of the year.” The fríðsplot was a patch or plot of ground sanctified, gefríðod, by some heathen ceremony, a kind of Taboo.